Woot! A ninety minute Christmas special and a bonus sixty minute episode!
The Runaway Bride: Great alien, great menace, huge special effects, and a new Companion … maybe! That and an all-action Gershwin soundtrack! Triffic start.
Oh, and plenty of “Huh, you mean the loss of Rose Tyler actually had an effect on the Doctor’s psyche?” amusement.
Smith and Jones: Great aliens, great menace, pretty decent special effects, and a new Companion … maybe! Oh, and introducing the charming, brilliant, slightly-creepy-stalker Doctor! Triffic second ep.
Glee!
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Great fun, wasn’t it? But I thought the Christmas episode soundtrack was distracting and very “BBC Radiophonic Orchestra.” It would have played very well under a “Roadrunner” cartoon. Maybe it was just a sound level thing on cable in our area, but it made the dialogue hard to catch.
The sound level of the music has been a problem all through the show, I’ve found (and, in combination with deciphering accents, has sometimes made dialog deucedly difficult).
That said, the music — epic and melodramatic — was definitely a co-star in the Christmas episode.
To my mind, the key moment of that ep was when the Bride raised the issue of Rose — and suddenly everything went from Marx Bros. romp to deadly serious, at least for a few beats.
This was posted over on the Cape Radio site.
The many “lives” of Doctor Who.
I am ashamed to admit that I can only name nine of them on sight.
http://www.thecaperadio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1502
Oh fun…and the older ones are in black and white even. *glee* That is a great picture with wonderful Charactures. 🙂
Okay, none of the male Companions, so that will cut down on the list a bit.
Off the top of my head, left to right:
-Susan (the Doctors Grand-daughter and also a Galafrayian, so he is not the last one – 1st Doctor)
-Vicki (1ft Doctor)
-Sara (A VERY young Jean Marsh, who knew she was ever young. ;P – 1st Doctor)
Ahh…not completely in season order…Where is Dodo?
-Polly (2nd Doctor)
-?
-Zoe (a great character – 2nd Doctor)
-Victoria or Liz Shaw? Though I don’t remember them being blond.
Now we get to the ones that Dave will know and love.
-Jo Grant (3rd Doctor)
-Sara Jane Smith (3rd Doctor – a little of the 4th)
-Lela (Best thing in Buckskin. ;P – 4th Doctor)
-Romana 1 (4th Doctor)
-Romana 2 (the first actress moved on but they had a lot of Romana plot to go, so since she was a Galafreyian, she regenerated – 4th Doctor)
-Nyssa (4th and 5th Doctor)
-Tegan (one of the most amusing things to come out of Australia . ;P – 4th and 5th Doctor)
-Peri (5th and 6th Doctor)
-Mel (6th Doctor)
-Ace (who, again was not a blond blond and she loved to make improvised explosives – 7th Doctor)
-?
-and lastly Rose (9th and 10th Doctor)
So, do I win some sort of geek award?
The awe and admiration of your fellows?
Original link here, which includes the names of each Companion.
And she did do a Doctor’s Boys too. 🙂
Thank you very much for posting the links to the DA page. The Doctor’s Boys is priceless!
Thank you very much Julia those are great! 🙂
Looks like I messed up on the Sara, who is Dodo (I do not remember that costume), and that is Victoria.
Ohhh…..
Sweet….
All ten Doctors too.
*Glee*
And as a side note, “The Shakespeare Code” (last Friday’s ep) was quite fun.